Download or read book A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now written by Aliki Barnstone and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of the Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Andr Breton written by André Breton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a kind of "essence of Breton", variously translated by some of our finest writers, each of whom highlights different facets of Breton's complex work. Mark Polizzotti's useful introduction provides context and a brief analysis of the artist and his times."—Diane di Prima, author of Recollections of My Life as a Woman "Mark Polizzotti, who is a poet, a translator, and the author of the definitive biography of André Breton, has chosen stellar translations of Breton's dazzling poetry and placed it in its lively context. This shapely introduction to the life and work of André Breton is smart, concise, and exciting. I cannot imagine a better one."—Ron Padgett, poet and translator of The Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars "The Poets for the Millennium Series generally and André Breton's Selected Works specifically offers a workable image of an author and the work and the conjuncture, all at once. What comes across is a vivid presentation of Andre Breton not just as an art czar, a manifesto merchant, but a serious, haunted, inventive and strangely profound poet of the imagination, who invented or archeologized new ways of dreaming, but insisted on bearing witness with them in the actual world. Polizzotti does justice--as I think no other writer has--to the double burden of Breton's work."—Robert Kelly "A superbly chosen selection of Breton's poetry and prose, translated in every case with an elegant intelligence, and preceded by an unusually thorough introduction showing quite exactly how the poet's life informed each epoch of his work. It proves again the remarkable un-boringness of Breton, and how important he is now to our own poetry and to us.—Mary Ann Caws, author of The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and editor of The Surrealist Painters and Poets
Download or read book Poet s Choice written by Robert Hass and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Haas first took his post as U.S. Poet Laureate, he asked himself, "What can a poet laureate usefully do?" One of his answers was to bring back the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice," a nationally syndicated column appearing in twenty-five papers, has introduced a poem a week to readers across the country. "There is news in poems," argues Robert Haas. This collection gathers the full two years' worth of Hass's choices, including recently published poems as well as older classics. The selections reflect the events of the day, whether it be an elder poet recieving a major prize, a younger poet publishing a first book, the death of a great writer, or the changing seasons and holidays. They also reflect Hass's personal taste. Here is "one of the most gorgeous poems in the English language" ("To Autumn" by John Keats): a harrowing Holocaust poem ("Deathfugue" by Paul Celan); and "my favorite American poem of spring" ("Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams). With a brief introduction to each poet and poem, a note on the selection, and insights on how the poem works, Robert Hass acts as your personal guide to the poetry shelves at your local bookstores and to some of the best poetry of all time.
Download or read book The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology written by J. J. Phillips and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the poetry from the last decade of American Book Awards that best reflects the multicultural interests and accomplishments in American literature
Download or read book The Mentor Book of Major American Poets written by Various and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1962-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more...
Download or read book Poets of England and America Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both Countries With an Introductory Essay written by POETS. and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of some contemporary poets with selections from their writings by E Taylor written by Emily Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from Canadian Poets written by Edward Hartley Dewart and published by Montreal, Lovell. This book was released on 1864 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Golden gleanings a selection from the poets devotional and moral written by Golden gleanings and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Some Contemporary Poets with Selections from Their Writings written by Emily TAYLOR (of New Buckenham.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Poetry of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit of the Poets A Series of Poetical Selections Classified According to Subject With Illustrations written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Selection from the Great English Poets written by Sherwin Cody and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the British Poets Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to the Present Time With Introductions Explaining the Different Species of Poetry written by IRELAND [Ireland -1922]. Commissioners of National Education and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagination and Fancy Or Selections from the English Poets written by Leigh Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
